Literature and Domestic Travel in Early Modern England

Informationen zum Autor Andrew McRae is Professor of Renaissance Studies in the Department of English at the University of Exeter. Klappentext An interdisciplinary investigation of the modes and meanings of domestic travel and of early modern attitudes to mobility. Zusammenfassung Andrew McRae examines the meanings of mobility in the early modern period! drawing on sources from canonical literature and travel narratives to a range of historical documents including maps and travel guides. This interdisciplinary book opens up domestic travel as a vital and previously underexplored area of research. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Routes: 1. Rivers; 2. Roads; 3. Inns and alehouses; Part II. Travellers: 4. The progress: royal travellers and common authors; 5. Tourism: Celia Fiennes and her context; 6. Traffic: John Taylor and his context; Epilogue: Defoe's Tour; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew McRae, Andrew (University of Exeter) Mcrae
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.08.2009
• EAN: 9780521448376
• ISBN: 978-0-521-44837-6
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies